After a recent power surge which wiped out some equipment, someone here suggested trying a mesh system. When visiting my oldest son he showed me his TP-Link system and said with just two nodes it gives him far better coverage than his previous wifi router. He gave me the unused 3rd node to try.
I have a comcast cable modem in the house and about 300' of underground ethernet to the shop. In the past I used a Netgear wifi router in the shop connected with ethernet.
I know less than nothing about the mesh things. Is there a nice guide for these somewhere? Ideally I'd like to connect the ethernet cable in the shop to a ethernet switch which currently feeds ethernet to the shop desktop computer and also plug the TP-Link mesh node into the switch. Can that be configured to give me wifi in the shop? I don't use wifi much in the shop but occasionally it's handy for iPad or phone.
Perhaps later I could connect another node in the house to ethernet from the cable modem in and put an additional one out in the sun room to get better wifi out on the deck. Can these things do that?
Another question: is the TP-Link a reasonable brand or is something else considerably better? I haven't invested any money yet!
JKJ